Stop Firefox from Persisting Select Box State across Reloads

Firefox caches form data. This is fine most of the time, but sometimes when you reload a page the form defaults change. By default, Firefox doesn't realize this for select boxes.

Reloading the page via another method, like highlighting the current url and pressing enter, works as expected: all fields are updated.

The solution is to add the attribute autocomplete="off" to the form element containing the troubled select box.

For a good example of how things should work, check out the Siafoo Syntax Highlighting Demo. (Shameless self-promotion)